SecondJon @SecondJon@qoto.org
- Current Life Chapter Title
- Something Smells Terrible
- More Seriously
- Fighting the long defeat
I'm interested in being just not civil, but excellent in interacting with others of different viewpoints in an online world where we can so viciously defend our echo chambers and be so dismissive of other perspectives.
I'm a #Dad of several from toddler to teen, #Husband, #Christian, #Anglican, Unaffiliated #conservatarian, Software #Developer, #Coloradan, Reader of paper #books, Card and BoardGamer, #tea drinker, solving problems and helping millions escape extreme poverty as a #Salesforce #Architect at an amazing nonprofit.
Joined Aug 2018
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I thought #Palestine just wanted to be left alone, and that #Israel is the aggressor. This does not compute!!!
RT: https://c.im/users/NBC/statuses/111194021779800565
#News Hamas says it has taken Israeli hostages in surprise attack https://w.st/mLF52
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Wife: [goes to sbux]
Me: [doesn't want anything because it's meh IMO]
Sbux: want this drink for free? it was a mis-order from the person ahead of you
Wife: I got you a treat; I know your priorities for free food trump your dislike of sbux
Me: this is true love
Met the new mayor of #Denver #Colorado this week at a townhall about his plan to solve outdoor deaths among the unhoused/homeless by using tax dollars to buy hotels and build tiny homes.
Because...if they die by overdose, murder, suicide under a roof, those outside death numbers go down. The stats look great, people feel great. But this doesn't make the deaths less tragic. It just removes them from sight so we can better ignore these people.
He said there will be comprehensive mental health and addiction services, but already the city is not doing what it's funded because they can't fill job positions.
Three underlying causes of homelessness: cost of living, mental health issues, addiction.
Cost of living here in Denver continues to go up because of state and city policies. Property taxes just went up hundreds of dollars per month. Our trash service taxes got spent elsewhere so now we are required to pay a monthly fee for it too. Government policy has increased the cost of utilities.
Government pandemic response escalated a lot of mental health issues and caused a lot of other problems.
Denver and Colorado keep legalizing more drugs, making our city a mecca for some seeking these. Denver benefits on the tax revenue.
The list goes on. Government policy is a major factor of all the causes of homelessness. But government benefits, so they won't fix the problem.
Best the can offer: once your taxes force you out of your home and you go crazy, they'll provide you clean needles at a converted hotel so you can escape until you kill yourself.
It feels machiavellian... Government policies will come to save the day from the problem caused by the same government.
I hope I'm wrong and hope good comes from this. But color me skeptical.
Some people are talking about a covid crisis next week.
Posting this for reference later.
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I understand feeling overwhelmed, stressed, etc. I have six kids. It’s not like I have some idealized, naive vision of parenthood. But all great things in life can also overwhelm and stress you out. It’s the price of admission. No sense whining about it.
I'm seeing stories that 74% of Americans support the ending of race based policies, and also seeing commentary that the supreme court only ruled against race based policies because of secret money paid by the far right.
So...the far right is 74% of Americans? Anyone to the right of Bernie Sanders maybe? And they're forcing their ideas of not basing decisions on race on the 26% who want to keep the race based policies?
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There is a significant difference between a large-scale conduit for the speech of others (Twitter) and a local bakery or embroidery shop. I think the law should treat large-scale places of public accomodation differently, and there's plenty of precedent for that.
The action in question is different, too. A baker who refuses to creatively express certain messages isn't muzzling anyone. And as a mere conduit, Twitter isn't speaking when they host our messages.
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We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.
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CNN Host Sues Trump For Assault And Defamation After Town Hall
"He said things I didn't agree with. Even worse, he said things I didn't like," said Collins in a statement. "It was the most traumatizing experience of my life. It was assault, plain and simple. And defamation. I'm suing Trump for $5 million like that other lady."
Babylon Bee
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"The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by 'the veil of familiarity.' The child enjoys his cold meat, otherwise dull to him, by pretending it is buffalo, just killed with his own bow and arrow. And the child is wise. The real meat comes back to him more savory for having been dipped in a story . . . by putting bread, gold, horse, apple, or the very roads into a myth, we do not retreat from reality: we rediscover it." — C.S. Lewis
My Jr higher was asking about reliable news sources.
I suggested to him that people used to think good news was information that aligned with reality.
Today we get alignment with a narrative regardless of reality.
I settle for sources with a declared bias because then you know how to filter it.
Funny to see a post yesterday about how people should be scared of Fox News CoMiNg fOr yOuR FaMiLy.
Fox is going after the guy that the "Fox news is ScArY" crowd are upset about.
In a situation with one of my teen sons that seems hopeless.
And yet, God does pretty good with hopeless.
May we not grow completely weary.
Yesterday I thought, wait.... Have we ever seen Lemon and Carson in the same room?
Now the same lawyer represents both.
Here's my theory.... Fox and CNN realized they had someone working in disguise at a competitor and let him go.
But which is the costume? Was Carson dressed to as Lemon to make a mockery of leftists, or was Lemon dressed up as Carson to make a mockery of Conservatives?
https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-don-lemon-lawyer-110412342.html
Dude in medieval armor expertly explains why he's pro-death penalty and why pro-abortion arguments are immoral
Met a #Denver Mayoral candidate today. He knocked on my door and we chatted for a few minutes.
- Current Life Chapter Title
- Something Smells Terrible
- More Seriously
- Fighting the long defeat
I'm interested in being just not civil, but excellent in interacting with others of different viewpoints in an online world where we can so viciously defend our echo chambers and be so dismissive of other perspectives.
I'm a #Dad of several from toddler to teen, #Husband, #Christian, #Anglican, Unaffiliated #conservatarian, Software #Developer, #Coloradan, Reader of paper #books, Card and BoardGamer, #tea drinker, solving problems and helping millions escape extreme poverty as a #Salesforce #Architect at an amazing nonprofit.
Joined Aug 2018
